Display stand for children s headwear



' Patented Mar. l4, I899. N. -c. BOAS. DISPLAY STAND FOB GHILDBENS HEADWEAR.

(Application filed May 28, 1898.)

(No Model) JVL'Zs 0.3026.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE NIELS O. BOAS, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-STAND FOR CHILDRENS HEADWEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,023, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed May 28, 1898.

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NIELS O. BOAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Display-Stand for Childrens Headwear, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to display-stands, and more particularly to certain improved devices of this class designed to display childrens fancy headwear.

The object of my invention is to provide a display-stand of this class upon which fancy caps, hoods, and other headwear for children may be placed in order to display such head- Wear as though it were on the head of the wearer and show to the best advantage the shape, quality, and trimming thereof.

My invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention most nearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- V Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a display-stand constructed. in accordance with my invention mounted on a base and with a childs cap or hood displayed on the head. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a stand constructed in accordance with my invention mounted in a wall-bracket. Fig. 3 is a detail view, in side elevation, of a stand-head with supporting-arm attached, part of the arm being broken away. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the broken line 4 4 of Fig; 3. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of part of the supporting-arm detached.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A indicates the head of my display-stand, which may be struck up or spun from a single piece of sheet metal-such as nickel, tin, brass, aluminium,&c.orit may be composed of two Serial No. 682,045. (No model.)

or more pieces properly riveted or soldered to= gether, if desired. Inform the main bodyportion B is cylindrical and the rear end curved inward, as at O, the extreme rear end being flattened, as at D, the lower portion of the front end being cut away on a curved line, as at E.

F indicates the supporting-arm for the head, which is bifurcated at G, the forked ends H being bent laterally in line with each other and provided with arms I at their outer ends at right angles to said forked arms and at a distance apart to fit within the main body B of the head A. These arms are perforated at J to receive rivets K, by means of which they are secured to the metal of the head. That portion of the arm F which enters the head is pre'ferablyhorizontal, but the remainder of the arm may either be curved outward, downward; and inward, as at L in Fig. 1, and thence continued as a perpendicular rod M, which may be fitted into a base N, by means of which the whole structure may be supported upon a table, stand, or other horizontal fixture, or may be curved downward and outward, as at O in Fig. 2, the inner end being formed into a perpendicular pintle P to be pivotally mounted in a bracket Q, secured to a wall or other vertical structure.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the illustrations, it will be readily apparent that the body of my displaystand approaches in form to the form of a childs hood, as illustrated at S in Fig. 1, the back of the hood fitting upon the fiat surface D and the main body of the hood encircling the cylindrical portion of the head and the lower portion of the hood, where it is cut out to fit the neck, fitting about the cut-away portion E, so that when the hood is in position upon the head of the display-stand it will present itself to view in the form which it assumes upon the head of the wearer, so that the curved lines of the hood, the texture of its material and trimming, and the quality thereof are all displayed to their'best advantage, thus facilitating the sale of such articles.

While I have illustrated and described the best means now known to me for carrying out my invention, I do not Wish to be understood as restricting myself to the exact materials or construction shown, but hold that any slight changes or variations, such as might suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic,

in line with each other and secured to the inside of the head, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the hollow sheetmetal head, curved and flattened at the rear and cut away at the lower front portion, of the arm, F, bifurcated at G into arms, 11, 1ying horizontally in line with each other and provided with angular arms, J, secured by rivets inside of the head, the arm F being, curved backward and downward and secured to a support, substantially as described.

NIELS C. BOAS.

Witnesses:

MAX GUMPERT, CHARLES HOFFMANN. 

